More: Not Romans—just for fun
on 11 October 2019
at 5:05 pm
I missed the first 10 days of Inktober, so here are 11 bears (drawn entirely without the aid of coffee!).
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I missed the first 10 days of Inktober, so here are 11 bears (drawn entirely without the aid of coffee!).
Good to see you
Now that’s more like it!!
Why is he/it pouring wine/water/some liquid to the barking dog…or maybe that’s a wolf?
It was meant to be dashing water on a barking dog to get it to calm down. I’d plan the figures out differently to be clearer if I drew something like this again, give more space to showing water sloshing—maybe add a wet and disgruntled but silenced extra dog 🙂
Oh. Thanks for the clarification. I thought the pouring bear was drunk as well. 😅
When the hurly-burly’s done, when the bears are fed and done… That’s from Julius Caesar, right? DRW
The dog-dousing bear cries: “Out-out damned Spot!”
Or: If this be mayhem, there are bears in it.”
Today’s Quote from Shakesbear! “We Happy-happy Bears!”
I have a question about amphorae that the article in Wikipedia didn’t really answer. Why was the bottom so narrow? Yes, I understand that they can be put into holding racks, but that requires holding racks to be present. Seems to me a storage/serving container that can’t stand on its own is pretty inefficient.
They were made that way for thousands of years, so there must be an advantage, though I don’t see it.
That is a fantastic question. I believe there are three reasons for the ones with the pointy bottoms:
= Stacking during transportation, either in upright or titled rows, for efficiency of tight packing
= Storage by sticking into the ground, in a pit of dirt, of sand, etc., which would help keep the contents cool
= Sifting of any grit or other impurities in the contents down to the bottom
There’d be no problem leaning a row of them against a wall, outside or along a corridor, with the pointy bit braced on the ground.
I’ll look for a confirmed scholarly source for those reasons—or any other reasons—just to make sure I’m remembering correctly.
Here are a couple of scholarly sources that talk about how different shapes helped with transportation and sifting contents: 🙂
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/info_intro.cfm
https://www.academia.edu/450552/A_Weightty_Matter_Pontic_Fish_Amphorae
Those were very interesting. Thanks! I had no idea they were specifically designed (and worked!) for different items.
I guess the answer to my original question is “because I’ve never had to ship foodstuffs across the Med in Roman times.” Like I’ve said for many years: “Our ancestors were not stupid.”
You doing okay? It’s been kinda quiet around here for a while (this is where the old frontiersman replies “Yep. TOO quiet…” right before the Comanches boil out of the sagebrush…).
Hopefully it’s just commissions and life in general, but hope you’re looking at a productive New Year…
Hi! Thanks for checking in—family stuff, a very very nice new job in the works, and then THE FLU. I’m still in the “flu seems to be over, but I’m still so tired I can barely move” stage. (Also someone maaaaybe lent me their Xbox and Red Dead Redemption 2 while I was recovering and maaaaaybe it has eaten my brain. If the game were set in Rome I’d never be able to turn it off.)
That’s good to hear.
My legacy dominates the XBOX and he won’t so much as let anyone else play FIFA20, so I am utterly clueless on what is addictive. But I’ll take your word for it; I remember spending a hell of a lot of quarters in the old “Joust” machine at Lancaster Mall back in the 1970’s…
I went on my Twitter rant about RDR2. I may now have some concerns about the long-ago-scripted story arc for SPQR Blues V.
I’m not saying I’ll change the arc. Just, hooboy, sometimes I forget the punch a story can have 😛
Well, no; the flu thing isn’t good to hear. Hope you kick that’s ass most quick smart.